Latest World News Update ENGLISH http://www.currentglobalnews.com admin@currentglobalnews.com After brokering a deal between record companies, film corporations, internet firms and itself, the French government has unveiled a new anti-piracy body formed to counter what President Nicolas Sarkozy has described as the growing use of the internet as a lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works...2007-11-24http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2528 Two International Space Station astronauts completed a 7 hour and 16 minutes spacewalk this morning that saw the completion of the ISSs newest room, Harmony. Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Daniel Tani began their spacewalk early Tuesday morning at 5:10 a.m. EST (10:10 UTC). This was...2007-11-22http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2517 The space shuttle Discovery is coming back to Earth after 11 days in orbit. The a scan of the Shuttles heat shield (now routine since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster showed no cause for concern and Discovery was cleared for the voyage home. The current mission, STS-120 was launched on October...2007-11-06http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2502 Lisa Coolett, a woman who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand has found a one centimeter wide pebble that supposedly shows the image of the Virgin Mary. She found the pebble while walking on a beach on the South Island of New Zealand. Since finding the pebble, Coolett has stated that she has...2007-10-25http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2481 The Peoples Republic of China today launched its first moon orbiter as part of the countrys lunar exploration program. At 18:00 hours local time (10:00 UTC) the rocket Change 1 lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China. The name of the probe refers to the Chinese goddess...2007-10-25http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2477 The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected, according to a new study published in Tuesdays edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study said that rising levels of CO2, the main greenhouse gas blamed for climate change,...2007-10-23http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2472 American preservationists breathed a sigh of relief in August as the Farnsworth House, a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed house widely considered a masterpiece of modern architecture, was spared by flooding along the Fox River in Plano. Storms deluged much of the Midwest, causing rivers throughout...2007-10-17http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2459 According to reports, American biologist Craig Venter is going to announce that he has created the first ever artificial life form on Earth at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a U.S. laboratory and research center, using synthetic chromosomes made from chemicals. The Guardian Unlimited reports that...2007-10-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2429 Scientists have announced that the largest radio telescope array in the world, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is to be built in either Africa or Australia and will be composed of thousands of antenna arrays that will be capable of detecting the first galaxies and stars formed in our universe. The...2007-10-05http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2419 At least 11 new species of life have been discovered in the rainforests of Thua Thien-Hue Province in Vietnam in a region of the forest described as the Green Corridor. The discovery was made by researchers from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Among the new species of are five orchids and at...2007-09-27http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2399 New images from Mars, taken by NASAs Mars Odyssey spacecraft and the Mars Global Surveyor have shown what appears to be at least seven entrances to large caves on the slope of Arsia Mons, a Martian volcano. Scientists believe the caves are very large and they believe that they lead to the subsurface...2007-09-24http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2390 A measure to ban the use of lead bullets in California was moved forward by the States Senate yesterday. Assembly Bill 821 bans the use of lead bullets for hunting within California. The bill, which was sponsored by Assemblyman Pete Nava and has letters of support from a number of conservation and environmental...2007-09-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2338 Much discussion has been garnered over a massive 200 yard spider web discovered in Lake Tawakoni State Park, Eastern Texas, United States. The web is stretched across a 200 yard section of a nature trail in the park, covering the ground, bushes and even seven sizeable trees. Donna Garde, superintendent...2007-09-01http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2317 Citizens in the Australian city of Bathurst in Central-Western New South Wales have turned out in the hundreds on top of Mount Panorama to observe tonights lunar eclipse. Those who turned out for the spectacle were treated to live music and purple flags with lighting to take on a mystic theme. Mount...2007-08-28http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2295 Anne Gaskett, a PhD student from Macquarie University in Sydney, has been conducting new research into the nature of the relationship between five species of native Australian tongue orchids and the orchid dupe wasp (Lissopimpla excelsa). The research builds on an original discovery in the 1920s...2007-08-24http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2276